I have sometimes a hard time when I take my children to the playground and something happens, like my child pushed another one or gets a bite from another one. I manage to say something most of the time but I am never sure that I said it in a proper way.

If possible, I would like this question to become a community-wiki type and I would like to know in what situations what you will say commonly. I started with the list I have. I collected the phrases and sentences by googling and listening to other parents who may or may not speak good German.

Reworded question and made a table of content for better readability. Feel free to further split or add other situations, above is just a framework from what we have. If somebody feels like having spare time we may also think of adding English translations to the answers.
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Takkat♦Jul 24 '13 at 10:33

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The phrase you're using is ambiguous - of course it is possible to "be impolite". "Das geht nicht" means that something is not possible. What you want to express would probably be rather something like

I thought about asking a similar question on Parenting, but actually I know what to say but not in German. And I now get that "Das geht nicht" is not the right phrase to use when I try to stop a child from what he's doing.
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ZhengleiJul 24 '13 at 8:28

Feel free to add this somewhere to the existing lists, or create another situations for the TOC :)
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Takkat♦Jul 24 '13 at 10:28

I added translations for every sentence, except the 2nd in the first row. I'd like to add, that some of the german sentences are typed uncarefully and in a informal way, so pay attention to that!
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mcwiseJul 25 '13 at 17:49

@mcwise: thank you - nice work. While you are at it editing the German would be o.k. too.
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Takkat♦Jul 25 '13 at 19:13

"Ei machen, das ist viel schöner. (To make eggs, that is much nicer.)" -> What is this supposed to be? "To make eggs"? Nonsens. Ei, ei machen? Perhaps, though you don't say this when you discipline your children.
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Em1Jul 25 '13 at 20:51

To stop children from doing something dangerous

Sometimes when "Stop" does not work, I will ask "Wo sind deine Eltern?"
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ZhengleiJul 24 '13 at 11:08

yeah - shouting "Stop!" is meant for situations like e.g. when kids start running on the street without looking.
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Takkat♦Jul 24 '13 at 11:20

You are right. I was talking about not so emergency situations where I have asked the child to stop doing something but he did not listen and what he is doing will hurt himself or other children.
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ZhengleiJul 24 '13 at 11:42